The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-06-16
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

The King of Sweden has fine bass
voice and sings artistically.
The Young Mems Christian Associat-
ion in Philadelphia is 100000 in debt
There are 23,2s7 people in Boston
over 10 years old who cannot read or
wtitc.
Jean Ingelow keeps out of the whirl
Of society, but sees her friends and gives
delightful garden parties.
American women are said to have
smaller hands than English women,
but the nails are not as pretty.
Baroness Burdett- Coutts is large
purchaser of American buckwheat,
which is canned ready for the griddle
for the London Market.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, heir to
the Russian Imperial throne, who last
week attained his nineteenth year.
possesses a tenor voice Of remarkable
tone and compass.
The law of Wyoming allows women
to vote. It goes still further. 1t
especially provides that there shall be
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the pay for any kind Of work.
Signor Enrico c. Barrili, son of the
late Ettore Barrili, and nephew of
Madame Adelina Patti, has been en-
gagged as choir master of St. Peters
Catholic Church, Reading, Pa.
Miss Helen Dauvray understands
baseball perfectly, and likes it 50
much that she will offer trophy in
the shape of silver cup worth $500,
to be won by the champion of America.
1t is said that when John L. Sullivan
was in Leadville, Col, recently, he
went to church and put $4OO on the
contribution plate. The contribution
plate is shown in proof of the asser-
ton.
The leading newspaper organ of the
colored men in Florida says that the
election of Mr.. Pasco to the United
States Senate is satisfactory to them.
He is considered q liberal and pro-
gressive man
O'Donovan-Rossa prints card in q
Brooklyn paper denouncing as "a liar,
and perhaps something worse than a
liar, the man who accuses him of ap-
propriating money contributed for Dick
Short, the assailant of Capt. Phelan.
Princess Beatrice Of England has
worn the same toilet very often this
season. 1t consists of gown of terra
Gotta silk, with striped blue and terra
Gotta petticoat and pale blue silk bon
net trimmed with wall flowers and ter
ra Gotta silk to match.
| Mrs. Levi P. Morton gave recep-
ton recently to Miss Ada Leigh, founder
of the Young Mems Home and Club in
Paris, who has already raised $50, 900
as building fund. Other American
women have seconded Miss Leigh's
efforts.
n Gov. Foraker has incontinently cut
off the official head of Miss d. A.
Gregory of Cleveland, whom he recent
ly appointed a Notary Public, for the
serious offence of being "a female per-
son, it being supposed at the time Of
her appointment that she was male
lperson.'
Gov. Hill of New York vetoed four
high-license bills during the late ses-
sion of the Legislature. He believes
that real estate should pay the taxes
while the liquor traffic goes untaxed.
There would seem to be no further
necessary for the repetition of his once
famous phrase. Il am Democrat"
The other day salmon weighing
ten pounds was found in hollow in =
field near the rivers bank at the
Orono, where it had been left by the
subsiding waters. It is not every
spring that the farmer can walk forth
in his field after a storm and gather
salmon from the puddles. Bangor
(Me.) Commercial
An elderly lady, who recently died
in West Chester, Pa, left in her will
$1,000, the interest of which is to be
applied to support her dog. After the
death OF the dog the money is to 60 to
St. Peters Great Valley P. E. Church.
The provisions of the will are carried
out. and the dog is likely to die Of good
living.
The Queen-Regent of Spain is q most
energetic and skilled needle-woman,
and as her evenings are exempt from
State ceremonies during her deep
mourning, Donna Christina spends
most of her time in embroidery. She
has recently finished magnificent flag
for new iron-clad named after her
the Reina-Regente--the standard being
over eleven yards long and a half wide.
Hard Money Tom Nichol is at
tempting to form company for the
construction Of trycicle railroad.
The cars are to be forty-six inches wide
and are to run on single track sus-
pended above existing Railroad tracks.
Mr.. Nichol claims that speed of 22O
miles an hour can thus be attained, and
that the journey from New York to
San Francisco can be made in day.
lie will probably form combination
with the Keely-motor man.
Mr.. Cables visit to Virginia is not
creating much of social stir. The
Richmond State says: "Richmond will
not be behind other of her Southern
sisters in playing tribute to sons Of the
South eminent in letters. Richmond
can appreciate that the genius of a
Southern man reflects credit upon the
South, but when that genius is misdi-
rected, then Richmond can only think
of that son rs one who has Turned
the sword bis mother gave against his
mothers breast"
: A woman who does sewing for tailors
writes on the difficulty of existing on
J the small wages she receives, giving as
an instance of the work that it takes
nearly 10000 stitches to put the or
binary top coat together. The body Of
the coat found required 1850 stitches;
the collar, 8.O62; sewing the collar on,
1,7O3; the buttonholes, 1920; the
sleeves and lining, $50; the pockets,
924; the silk lining of body, with wad-